Brex­it: a coup by one set of public school­boys against ano­t­her — FT.com “I went to uni­ver­si­ty with both sets, and with hind­sight I wat­ched Brex­it in the making. When I arri­ved at Oxford in 1988, David Came­ron, Boris John­son and Micha­el Gove had just left the place. Geor­ge Osbor­ne and the future Brex­i­ters Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dani­el Hann­an were all con­tem­pora­ries of mine. I wasn’t clo­se to them, becau­se poli­ti­cal­ly min­ded public school­boys inh­a­bi­ted their own Oxford bub­b­le. ”